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“While there are plenty of situations that are as you describe. There is no serious scientific basis for claiming that there is no sexual desire involved on the part of the aggressor.”
Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D., writes the following in an article in Psychology Today:
Such crimes are more common than you might think, but few know much about the rapists who stalk these victims. There is a stereotype that such predators are homosexual. However, this is not the case. Rapists who prey on males can be sexually oriented to women, men, or both. It is most typical for such rapists to be heterosexual or bisexual and living with a partner. Often, they consider themselves to be quite masculine and go overboard in projecting that image. Tattoos, excessive drinking, and having many consensual sexual partners is common. In fact, such offenders believe that the rape makes them more masculine which builds a grandiose self perception.
“Furthermore, not all homosexual encounters in prison are non-consensual. There are also plenty of consensual encounters by people who were, and return to being, heterosexual on the outside. The same thing occurs with women.”
Correct. That is why I wrote that *often* they are not consensual.